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A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662
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16. Moreover Holiness teacheth men to forgive wrongs, and to Love our enemies, and to let go our right, rather then to break Peace and revenge our wrongs: and to forbear even going to Law contentiously, and where our putting up injuries merely to our selves, may suffice for the avoiding of it. Luke 6. 27, 28, 29. Mat. 6. 14, 15. 1 Cor. 6. 7. And what contention can there be where these Rules are practised? except when the interest of God or others is violated; which is not in our power to remit. If you say, that These things are good if they were practised: I answer, 1. You confess then that Holiness is good: For the Rule is Good, whether it be practised or not. 2. I answer, that so much as any man is sanctified, he doth practise it. And therefore if any man live not according to the Rule which he professeth to live by, that is from the remnant of that sin within him, which the wicked plead for, and for want of more of that Godliness which you distaste. Make him more holy, and he will do all this.
16. Moreover Holiness teacheth men to forgive wrongs, and to Love our enemies, and to let go our right, rather then to break Peace and revenge our wrongs: and to forbear even going to Law contentiously, and where our putting up injuries meerly to our selves, may suffice for the avoiding of it. Luke 6. 27, 28, 29. Mat. 6. 14, 15. 1 Cor. 6. 7. And what contention can there be where these Rules are practised? except when the interest of God or others is violated; which is not in our power to remit. If you say, that These things are good if they were practised: I answer, 1. You confess then that Holiness is good: For the Rule is Good, whether it be practised or not. 2. I answer, that so much as any man is sanctisied, he doth practise it. And therefore if any man live not according to the Rule which he professeth to live by, that is from the remnant of that sin within him, which the wicked plead for, and for want of more of that Godliness which you distaste. Make him more holy, and he will do all this.